2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Painting in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$41,800
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 643 people earned their degree in painting, making the major the 517th most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 136 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in painting. That schools that top this list have a program in painting in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree painting students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Painting in the New England Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Rhode Island School of Design landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 9 degrees to qualified masters’s painting students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on Painting at RISD
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the New England Region. Boston U is located in Boston, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 16 masters’s painting degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full Boston University Painting Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, this medium-sized public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s painting students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full UMass Dartmouth Painting Report
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Notes and References
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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